STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/a428d531-2f02-4464-b1d4-9eee22c02800 Join the Linux kernel Livepatching Webinar, and get a chance to win a floating bluetooth speaker: https://bit.ly/42rKeBH Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick Twitter : http://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos This video is distributed under the Creative Commons Share Alike license. #rss #socialmedia #linux 00:00 Intro 00:40 Sponsor: Learn about kernel livepatching with this free webinar 01:45 Why social media sucks for news 04:04 What is RSS 04:55 Advantages of RSS 06:49 What can you add to your RSS reader 10:13 Choosing an RSS Reader 13:02 Use RSS, not Social media for your News 13:45 Sponsor: get a PC that runs Linux perfectly with Tuxedo 14:29 Support the channel The big, main reason social media sucks for news is that they were never designed for that. All the big social media platforms have one goal, and one goal only: to keep you there for as long as they can, so they can show ads, and make more money. On top of that, things you are subscribed to might also never be shown to you. You can't really go back to older things, search through what you archived, sort it in a specific way, create your own organization system. RSS works with 2 components: an RSS Feed Reader, and RSS Feeds. Feeds are what you'll subscribe to: they're just a simple file a lot of websites have, that can be read by the Feed Reader, which will aggregate all these feeds in one place. And RSS has TONS of advantages! First, you'll only ever get what you subscribed to. There is no algorithm, no recommendations, no ads in between posts. And you can add a LOT of sources: websites, video channels, podcasts, social media accounts, and even newsletters. Second, all feed readers have organization capabilities. Third, you can sort things. Fourth, you can go back and search through older articles. Fifth, you can navigate super easily from one article to the other. And finally, it's portable: all readers will let you export and import your feed list. RSS is all about adding sources, or feeds to your reader. A lot of websites will display a small orange square icon, which is the RSS logo. Clicking the icon will bring you to the feed, or give you a URL you can copy. That's what you want to add to your feed reader. But some websites don't have an RSS feed, or an icon to access it. No matter, most RSS feed readers will let you add any website URL, and automatically create an RSS feed for you. If you want to add videos from a youtube channel, let's say a bearded french Linux content creator, most feed readers will also just let you copy paste the channel's URL and add it as a feed. On Peertube, it's even easier, just click the subscribe button, and you get the ability to access the feed. You can even add social media posts if you really want to. Using rss.app, you can just copy paste a social media profile in there, and it will spit out an RSS feed you can add to your reader. And you can also add podcasts. If you're really into RSS, you can also add newsletters. Using the website kill-the-newsletter.com, you can generate an email address and a feed. The first thing you'll need to pick is obviously an RSS Reader. If you want a single device solution, it's very easy. On Linux, Newsflash is the one I use. A few web browsers will give you access to an RSS Feed reader built-in, like Opera or Vivaldi, and Thunderbird also has the ability to do that. If you want the simplest multi-device solution, Feedly is a good bet. You can create a free account, add up to 100 different feeds, create a few folders, and if you want to go over that, they have paid plans. They have mobile apps, and a web interface on PC. There's also Newsblur, which does the same thing, and is open source, but the free version limits you to 64 feeds. Tue, 26 May 2026 17:48:37 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.keazilla.net STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! https://peertube.keazilla.net/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/a428d531-2f02-4464-b1d4-9eee22c02800 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.keazilla.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - marekmar]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=20196 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=20196 Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:07:35 GMT I am not sure why, but RSS doesn't work if channel on peertube instance is federated.

]]> marekmar <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Smartstein]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=20195 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=20195 Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:34:28 GMT @thelinuxexperiment RSS is one of the things that stopped evolving because of modern social media.

I hope that it remains functional like you show in the video.

]]> Smartstein <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Rogue Metahuman]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19307 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19307 Sat, 01 Jul 2023 21:50:51 GMT Exactly What I was Looking for right now. Thank you Nick.

]]> Rogue Metahuman <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - sudokill]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19308 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19308 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:29:22 GMT @thelinuxexperiment i learnt a lot, thanks man

]]> sudokill <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Nate M]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19309 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19309 Wed, 24 May 2023 12:52:20 GMT @petrescatraian @thelinuxexperiment Yeah i think Friendica has a lot of cool features i only moved away from it because i didn't like the look and lack of mobile apps.

]]> Nate M <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Nate M]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19311 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19311 Wed, 24 May 2023 12:50:39 GMT @thelinuxexperiment this reminded me to setup Nextcloud News thanks

]]> Nate M <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Jeena]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19312 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19312 Sat, 13 May 2023 12:43:58 GMT Oh hm, thanks for pointing out that RSS is available on PeerTube and that it shows all the videos unlike the ActivityPub Subscription implemented in PeerTube https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/3947

]]> Jeena <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Jeena]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19313 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19313 Sat, 13 May 2023 12:37:53 GMT It's so terrible that the browsers removed the RSS icon to subscribe to feeds in your feed reader. It was very practical to be able to have the RSS icon in the same place for each website because it would be part of the browser UI and not only the website UI. Then you could add a hook where to redirect to subscribe. Sadly both the hook functionality and the RSS icon have been removed from all browsers.

]]> Jeena <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - petrescatraian]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19309 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19309 Thu, 11 May 2023 19:47:19 GMT @thelinuxexperiment Do you think that Friendica can be used as an RSS reader? I mean, you can follow RSS feeds here (they look as regular accounts), you can add them to a "group" so you can only see posts from certain accounts, and you can even create folders that you can save the content to.

]]> petrescatraian <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Daryl76679]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19314 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19314 Thu, 11 May 2023 03:47:06 GMT I'm happy to see that your videos on PeerTube are so successful. Thanks for the great contenet!

]]> Daryl76679 <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Doctor Mad]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19306 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19306 Tue, 09 May 2023 20:02:26 GMT @thelinuxexperiment Another excellent take and video 👍 👍

I've been using RSS feeds for nearly 15 years, never looked back. RSS feeds keep you informed, free of noise and sane of mind ;-). Time to use some of your tips and upgrade my RSS state of mind 🙏

]]> Doctor Mad <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Mark Zimmerman]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19298 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19298 Tue, 09 May 2023 19:19:39 GMT @thelinuxexperiment I've been using Feedly as my RSS reader of choice. Really nice and customizable UI across platforms and a great free tier!

]]> Mark Zimmerman <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Ghazi]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19299 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19299 Tue, 09 May 2023 18:54:57 GMT @thelinuxexperiment My dream is a RSS generator that can generate RSS feeds from private Facebook groups and friends' profiles (using my login credentials ofc). Haven't found any service offering that unfortunately :(

]]> Ghazi <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - mattmaison]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19302 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19302 Tue, 09 May 2023 16:46:43 GMT @thelinuxexperiment

YES!!!

]]> mattmaison <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Mohammad | محمد]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19303 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19303 Tue, 09 May 2023 16:46:06 GMT @thelinuxexperiment Me noticing about this video from my RSS reader :)) That's really way better. I also don't miss anything. Social media has made us less patient honestly. Good content (Blog articles, videos, ...) get lost between all those short or spam content.

]]> Mohammad | محمد <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - mrscientific]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19304 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19304 Tue, 09 May 2023 16:46:05 GMT @thelinuxexperiment Yeah, RSS is pretty amazing. Didn't know about the online services like kill the newsletter. Will definitely try it out.

I don't like RSS for videos though since I typically have to have a separate video player for that, or in some cases have to deal with a wonky video player.

]]> mrscientific <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Lino :verified:]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19300 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19300 Tue, 09 May 2023 16:43:15 GMT @queenslight @thelinuxexperiment The average bloke doesn't know what RSS is IMHO. Can't find a reliable RSS reader that's accessible to us who are blind anyway. That's why for now I subscribe to eamil newsletters.

]]> Lino :verified: <![CDATA[STOP using SOCIAL MEDIA for News, RSS is MUCH BETTER! - Lino :verified:]]> https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19305 https://peertube.keazilla.net/w/mgJ2R4gfQ3XqZPZFHtWDPE;threadId=19305 Tue, 09 May 2023 16:42:17 GMT @queenslight @thelinuxexperiment I disagree.

]]> Lino :verified: